lone wolf

ftr - hats off to the british authorities (well, the police at least - blair et al can go to hell) for being tight-lipped, to date, about their investigation and not speculating on things that they dont know.

this article is an exception - perhaps the dam is starting to burst.

there has also been strong suggestion that the bombers are 'home-grown british' which, as far as i can tell, is completely unsubstantiated. from what i can tell, this argument is based solely on the idea that the explosives were garden-variety, and therefore werent imported. that seems like one helluva logic leap.

the other curious piece of the puzzle is the explosion on the bus, an hour after the other bombs went off. i dont have a theory about what happened there - but the prevailing theory seems to be reasonable-sounding-ish, but rather unconvincing:

"One theory is that the man was to launch a second wave of attack, targeting people fleeing closed Tube stations.
When he found that stations had been quickly shut, the terrorist may have panicked, or been under orders to switch his attention to a bus, another symbol of London’s travel network. "

without evidence, id be equally prepared to consider that it was a decoy.

similarly, the story about some guy looking nervous on the bus ought be taken with a grain of salt, as far as i can tell. one thing's for sure, if i was on public transport in london in the next few weeks, id try my damndest to look as unnervous as possible, given hows i like swarthy and all, in case i get attacked by a deranged grandmother.

quoting from the same article: "The bombers travelled from outside London." - this stateent is given as fact, apparently without any justification.

the same article:

"The Times understands that the country’s biggest manhunt is focusing on evidence being gathered from King’s Cross station, which all three of the bombed Tube trains passed through on Thursday morning.
A re-examination of the timings of the explosions has revealed that the Underground bombs exploded within seconds of one another at 8.50am.
Investigators believe that the bombers assembled at the huge station, with its many rail connections, before dispersing to plant their devices around the Tube network.
The Circle Line bombs detonated when the Aldgate train was eight minutes east of King’s Cross and the Edgware Road train was eight minutes to the west. The Russell Square train was blown up seconds later, south of King’s Cross on the Piccadilly Line. "

im just speculating here - and without looking at my tube map and kingsX platform layout, is it conceivable that the whole thing was committed by one person?
again, without looking at a platform layout, could you get on a train, drop off a bag, get off, do the same thing on a train going in the other direction on the opposite platform, then get to another platform, drop off another bag, then get outta kings croos and then get on a bus?